💰 OasisPro · Migration Cost Comparison · IFS Cloud 26R2
Two quotes.
Neither is the
real number.
Every Crystal Reports migration cost conversation seems to land on the same two extremes: rebuild everything in IFS Cloud Report Studio, or do nothing and hope. Neither is a real strategy. They're both lazy defaults dressed up as decisions, and the honest number lives somewhere in between, built report by report, not estate by estate.
A single company-wide quote, whichever direction it leans, is almost always wrong, because it prices a estate that's actually a mix of simple, moderate, and genuinely complex reports as if it were uniform.
Here are the 6 numbers that build a real, blended cost instead of a guess wearing a decimal point.
"Rebuild everything" prices your simplest reports at your hardest report's rate. "Do nothing" prices your risk at zero. Both numbers are fiction, and both get presented as if they were conservative.
The real migration cost is a blend: a rebuild rate for the complex core, a preservation rate for everything else, and a risk-adjusted cost for whatever you genuinely choose to leave alone. That's a number you can defend. The other two are guesses with more confidence than they've earned.
The 6 numbers behind a real Crystal Reports migration cost
- 1. Real report count, post-audit. Not the registry number. The number that survives run-history and dormancy checks, since that's what you're actually pricing.
- 2. Complexity distribution across that surviving count. What share is simple, moderate, and genuinely complex. This single number does more to correct a bad estimate than anything else on this list.
- 3. Rebuild hours per complexity tier, not a flat per-report rate. A simple extract and a heavily customized invoice cost wildly different amounts to rebuild, and pricing them the same is where all-rebuild quotes inflate.
- 4. Preservation cost per report, amortized honestly. Compare it against the rebuild number for the same report, not against an abstract "doing nothing is free" baseline.
- 5. Risk-adjusted cost of inaction. A broken report discovered in production during close has a real cost, even if it never shows up on an invoice. Price it honestly instead of pretending it's zero.
- 6. One blended total, built from the actual mix. Complex core rebuilt, everything else preserved, inaction priced honestly where you genuinely choose it. That's the number that survives contact with your CFO.
Why all-rebuild quotes run high
They price your entire estate at the hourly rate your most complex report actually needs. Most estates have a long tail of simple extracts that don't deserve that rate, and a flat quote never separates them.
Why do-nothing quotes run low
They treat the cost of a broken report discovered in production as someone else's problem for another day. It isn't. It's a cost, just a deferred and usually larger one.
Why a blended number holds up
It prices what's actually complex at rebuild rates, what's actually simple at preservation rates, and what you genuinely choose to defer at an honest risk-adjusted rate. Nothing about it needs to be taken on faith.
The single correction that fixes both bad quotes
Complexity distribution. Once you know what share of your estate is genuinely complex versus genuinely simple, both the all-rebuild quote and the do-nothing baseline become visibly wrong, and the blended number becomes the obvious one.
How to actually build the blended number
Start with the estate audit. Real count, real dormancy split, real complexity distribution. Everything downstream depends on this being accurate.
Price rebuild hours against complexity tiers, not a flat rate. Price preservation the same way, per report, not per estate.
Add an honest, non-zero number for whatever you genuinely choose to leave running as-is, based on how exposed those specific reports actually are.
A quote that treats your whole estate as equally complex isn't conservative. It's just wrong in a direction that happens to be expensive.
What this blended approach actually protects you from
Overpaying to rebuild simple Crystal Reports that never needed the full Report Studio rebuild treatment in the first place.
Underpricing the real risk of reports you're planning to leave alone, only to discover the true cost during close, in front of finance.
Presenting a single number to leadership that falls apart the moment someone asks how it was calculated.
We'll build your blended number, not a flat quote.
OasisPro prices rebuild and preservation against your actual complexity distribution, report by report, so the total you take to finance is one you can explain line by line.
See the Report Studio requirements this feeds intoStop choosing between two bad quotes.
Send us your estate audit, or let us run one, and we'll build a blended cost across rebuild, preservation and honest risk pricing, so the number you bring to your CFO actually holds up.
Why is rebuilding everything usually the wrong default?
Because it prices every report at the complexity of your hardest ones. Most estates have a long tail of simple reports that cost far less to rebuild than a flat per-report rate assumes, so an all-rebuild quote is almost always inflated.
Why is doing nothing also usually the wrong default?
Because it ignores the compounding cost of reports breaking in production after 26R2 lands, discovered at the worst possible time, plus the ongoing risk of running an integration IFS itself has deprecated. Doing nothing is not free, it is just a cost that has not landed yet.
What does a realistic hybrid migration cost actually look like?
A small number of complex, high-value reports rebuilt in Report Studio, a larger number of simple to moderate reports preserved through an approach like CrystalWorks, and the total priced against the real complexity split from an estate audit, not a flat rate applied to everything.
How do we get an actual number instead of two extreme quotes?
Run the estate audit first to get the real complexity distribution, then price rebuild and preservation against that distribution report by report, not against the whole estate as a single line item.
Price the estate you actually have
Not the estate a flat rebuild quote imagines, and not the risk-free estate a do-nothing plan pretends exists. The real one, with its actual mix of simple and complex reports.
Six numbers, built from an audit, blended into one total you can defend.